News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-12-15
MYSTERIES OF A DAY.
NOTES OF CURIOUS EVENTS
MADE BY THE REPORTERS.

| strongly lmpelled to make a guess, he
felt again for pencil and found an old
lottery ticket, on which was the number
"a, 200. He borrowed a pencil, put
| down the number and won one hundred
| dollars.
For years huge column of black
smoke by day and lurid flames by
night rolled up from dense Florida
swamp, but no one penetrated the
swamp far enough to discover the cause.
| Recently young man noticed that the
smoke and flame had disappeared, and
he determined to try and find the spot
where they had been. With great Ia
Dor he worked his way into the swamp
until he came upon a large mound of
rent and shattered rocks which looked
as though they had been subjected to
a terrific upheaval. Their under sides
were covered with SCOT, and so were the
crev1ces between, but no smoke or heat
| was discovered. The explorer decided
that the fire was caused by the burning
| OF natural oil well, which had burned
| itself out.
The CHIEF OF POLICE in Los Ange-
les had on his force aprivate detective
so private that no one in town, except
! the Chief, knew that he was detective.
| The other night, disguised as q China
man, he was sent to Chinese gambling
house, and after being admitted he gave
signal to the men on the outside.
Immediately the Cinnamon pounced
on him, and gave him thorough maui
ing, and then fed. After they had gone
he followed them through hole in the
roof, and as he stuck his head out he
| hXyo in.
lently to another near the caves, and by
him dropped to the ground near the feet
of the Chief. who seized him. cts
me-" gasped the detective, and thus he
was saved from further injury. He
has resigned.
COLORADO wolves are some of them
| great lovers of music. George Good
win, cowboy near Wetmore, whiled
away the time by playing harmonica.
| One day, as he rode and played, wolf
came toward him and followed him
closely. George dismounted, still play
ing, got q club, and walked up to the
animal, who, all intent on the music,
stood still and was killed. Agnes Wright,
when she went after the COWS, used to
sing to herself. A wolf heard her and
followed her. When q second person
went with the girl the wolf did not APP
pear. Then her brother rode behind
her on the horse, and the wolf came too
near the singing and was shot.
ROBERT BRoCKIE, farmer of Pavilion,
fell from load of cornstalks Saturday
evening and alighted on his head His
neck was dislocated and he was picked
up for dead. When he got home it was
seen that his heart still beat, and local
doctor went to work to save him. He
set the dislocated neck, but had no idea
that the man would live an hour. He
did, however, and is now able to talk,
but his body is paralyzed. The hospi-
tai physician will endeavor to give him
the use of his limbs again. The phvsi-
clans say this is the first case on record
where man lived after his neck was
dislocated.
A MAINE physician says that one day
he saw big crane standing on n log
that fioated near the shore on the Ken
nebeo river. The crane had captured a
| large bug, which he dropped into the
stream, so-that it daateds down past
| him, and then grabbed it and again re-
| peated the performance. He kept this
up for nearly half an hour, and then a
pickerel darted up from below after the
bug. This was just what the bird had
been waiting for, and the next moment
| the fish was down his throat,
and he was winging his way
slowly up the stream.
THERE IS in Griffin, Ga, small, fat
child of remarkable gravity of demeanor
and of an investigating turn of mind.
The other day he climbed to the cow
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when it was in motion, fell off, With
rare presence of mind he lay perfectly
still until the entire train had passed
over him. The experience pleased him
and the next day he went down to the
depot and, unseen by the engineer, lay
down on the track and waited until the
train passed over him. He is now pin
ing in the seclusion of the parental
backyard.
IT is said that in the southern part OF
Russia the peasants use n coin of such
small value that it would take 100000
of them to buy an American dollar, and
these coins are so scarce that man who
has hundred is looked upon as rich,
and one who has q thousand is consid-
cred very wealthy. 1t is strange to
think a person wealthy who owns two
fifths of cent, and comfortably we'll of
on one-twenty- fifth of o cent. But the
value of money depends, of course, Oh
what it will buy.
A SOUTH FLORIDA town has a young
lady postmistress. She complained to
an inspector that stamps were bought
from her and then letters mailed on the
train, thus robbing her of the fee fo1
cancellation. Long did she revolve
various schemes to prevent this, and
finally she Cancelled the stamps when
sold, and as they were good nowhere
else, the letters bearing them were
dropped in at her office. This is new
way to remedy an old evil.-United
States Mail.
A RUSSIAN yonng lady has been con
demned to lifelong imprisonment fol
marrying sixteen husbands. She is a
curiosity, and ought to have been lei
off. When her lawyer went to see hel
in prison after the trial she assm ed him
of her gratitude and asked him to ac-
cept as a souvenir a gold watch and
chain, which she placed the table
before him. He at once recognized il
as his own. She had picked his pocket
and then presented him with his own
watch.
WITHIN twenty-four hours recently
the thermometer fell from summer heat
to some degrees below zero centigrade
IN Silesia. A single nights snow fall
put an end to telegraphic cOmmunica-
ton. Wreaths some inches deep hu o
from the poles and wires, and in MANY
places the wires were broken and poles
overturned by the fierce winds accom-
panying the snow. 1t is many wears
since there has been such severe and
early beginning of winter there.
A PLAUSIBLE man has visited the far
mers of Maine this fall, and after set
ting forth the value of birds as insect
destroyers, and the wickedness of those
who kill them, has presented we'll
worded document, apparently a pledge.
not to kill a bird for year, for the far,
mers to sign. If he did sign, the paper
came back to him in a short time in the
shape of a promissory note. Not few
agriculturists were thus swindled
LAST spring Miss Lottie Temple, OF
Heath, Mass, a young woman Just past
q, leased large farm which she worked
successfully, making good crops. The
other night party of her friends gave
her a surprise husking bee, and ali her
large crop of corn was well husked in a
little over two hours Reports from
other parts of New England indicate a
revival of that excellent institution
the husking bee.
The SINGULAR FACT is demonstrated
that while the most raDid cannon shots